[ih] IPv8...

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

your "*Conclusion*

The main reason for IPv6, and its only real reason for existence, was
bigger addresses. The problems of coexistence were inevitable, and it was
hard to find the best (or rather, least bad) solutions. Most of the
difficulties of IPv6 implementation and deployment are not the result of
the details of IPv6 design. Any address length greater than 32 would create
all the coexistence and transition problems we have experienced since 1994.
Both dual stack deployment and translation (of protocol plus addresses)
were mathematically inevitable. No alternative choice can possibly avoid
these issues.

*_The community should avoid wasting time on such proposals_*."

was most enjoyably Padlipsky-esque in the way his 1982 {{RFC874}} Critique
of X.25 was

"*Conclusion*

          *_**X.25 is not a good thing_*."

:),
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On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 6:01 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Some here might be interested by my new rant at
> https://github.com/becarpenter/misc/blob/main/why6why.md
>
> This was prompted by a couple of recent Internet-Drafts but it does
> concern Internet history.
>
> Comments on or off list welcome.
>
> Regards/Ngā mihi
>     Brian Carpenter
>
>
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